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Leadership Styles – Introduction
In South Africa as in the rest of the world, leadership styles are used as a means of stereotyping managerial and leadership skills into specific buckets. The aim of this is often to understand how to deal with a specific leader or hone one’s own leadership skills.
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Leadership Styles – Definition
A leadership style is a leader’s style, implementing plans, of providing direction and motivating people. There are many types of leadership styles in the political and business world.
Leadership Styles – Types
Types of leadership styles include:
- Leadership Styles: Authoritarian – leader keeps close, strict control over followers by keeping close regulation of policies and procedures given to followers. E.g. police officer directing traffic, a teacher ordering a student to do his or her assignment. This type is associated with of fear, where there is little or no room for dialogue and where complaining may be considered futile.
- Leadership Styles: Paternalistic (fatherly) – acting as a father figure by taking care of their subordinates as a parent would. One negative is that the leader could start to play favorites in decisions.
- Leadership Styles: Democratic – consists of the leader sharing the decision-making – promoting the interests of the group members and by practicing social equality.
- Leadership Styles: Laissez-faire (“Let it be”)The laissez-faire leadership style is where all the rights and power to make decisions is fully given to the worker.
- Leadership Styles: Transactional – focuses on motivating followers through a system of rewards and punishments.
Leadership Styles – Training
While one can use leadership styles to understand basic leadership traits and qualities, another source of acquiring leadership skills is through training courses including:
- Problem Solving– All good leaders require this skill.
- Decision Making Training – an essential skill.
- Human Resources Management and Labour Relations Training Course – manage human capital
- Training in mentoring and Coaching – all leaders need to mentor and coach
- Interpersonal Skills Course – Key!
- Training Course diversity Management – Very Important.
- Effective Disciplinary Hearing Course – unfortunate but necessary.
- Conflict Management & Negotiation Skills Training – dealing with conflict is a key skill.
- Finance for Non-Financial Managers – without finance, there is no business.
- Management And Leadership Development
- Presentation Mastery for Managers
- Stress Management
- Effective Business Writing and Communication Skills
- Rapport Training
- Leadership Training Course
- People Management Training Course
- Supervisory Skills Training Course
- Team Leaders Training Course
- Assertiveness Skills Training Course
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